期刊名称：DIABETIC MEDICINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Diabetic Medicine |
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Journal of Diabetes UK Online ISSN: 1464-5491
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Diabetic Medicine is an information exchange on all aspects of diabetes mellitus and aims to publish reviews and original articles in the fields of diabetes research and practice. It particularly focuses on basic and applied research of direct relevance to clinical diabetes and its scope ranges from fundamental research to delivery of better health care. The journal provides a multidisciplinary forum combining original articles,comprehensive reviews of research and clinical issues, comment, news and correspondence.
Instructions to Authors
Presentation
Authors should familiarize themselves with the style and content of articles in Diabetic Medicine before preparing a manuscript. The Editor retains the right to refuse a manuscript at any stage of the publication process, and to publish a paper under whatever group heading is considered appropriate. The Editor's decision is final.
Copyright in published papers will be vested in Diabetes UK. A copy of this agreement, signed by the author named for correspondence, must accompany articles submitted for publication. Copies are available online at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/dme_caf.pdf or from the editorial office.
Electronic submission
Electronic submission is encouraged. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://dme.manuscriptcentral.com. The system allows the upload of any file type. However, it is recommended that text files are uploaded as Microsoft Word or RTF (these will automatically be converted to PDF) and figures as JPEG, GIF, TIFF or EPS. Where possible please combine multiple files into a single Word document. Help is available online or by e-mailing support@scholarone.com.
Paper Submission
If you cannot submit online, four copies of a submitted manuscript (including illustrations) in English, to include a disk, should be sent to the Editor at Diabetic Medicine Editorial Office, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK. Only one set of original figures is required for line diagrams, if photocopies are included with the copies of the manuscript. Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, on A4 (297 x 210 mm) paper with a 5 cm left hand margin. Paper submissions must be accompanied by a disk containing the full text of the manuscripts and electronic versions of any artwork. Please include a word count for a) the abstract and b) the article.
Reviewers
Authors are asked to facilitate the review process by providing the names and addresses of at least three suitable reviewers, on the understanding that the Editor is not bound by any such nomination. Failure to follow this request may delay the handling of your paper, since the editorial office may specifically ask you to nominate potential reviewers for papers covering unfamiliar areas.
Types of Article
The following types of article will be considered for publication:
Original Articles Original research studies of relevance to diabetes mellitus science and practice. Clinical science and clinically relevant basic science papers will be considered. Suggested length 2500-3000 words.
Clinical Practice Original articles focusing on issues directly related to the clinical presentations and management of diabetes mellitus.
Epidemiology Papers considered for this section are most likely to be successful if they are the first contemporary report of the prevalence of glucose intolerance (or the first report using good methodology) in a particular population group, preferably in which there is international interest, and/or if through the description of the distribution of diabetes or glucose intolerance by particular population characteristics or by identifying an association with putative risk markers, the data suggest new aetiological or pathogenic hypotheses.
Short Reports Brief (1500 words, with one Figure and one Table and up to 30 references) reports of original or important observations. Rapid publication can be offered in this category.
Case Reports Descriptions of unusual clinical cases carrying a new or important message.
Reviews Often invited, but unsolicited reviews are welcomed. All will undergo peer review. Reviews should aim to be comprehensive and should include the search methodology used to find the source data. Suggested length 5000 words.
Special Reports Often, but not exclusively, publication of Diabetes UK reports of importance to the diabetes research and clinical practice community.
Technical Reports Short reports of newly available products with independent observation of their usefulness.
Letters Letters to the Editor should not exceed 800 words plus one Table or Figure.
Media review Book reviews etc.
Disk Submission
Manuscripts are published from disk and must be provided in this form with the final accepted version of the manuscript. This reduces typesetting errors and speeds up publication. The final version of the hard copy and the file on disk must be the same. Carriage returns should not be used at the ends of lines within paragraphs. The hyphenation option should be turned off. Disks will not be returned to authors.
Most software and disk formats can be accessed; authors should specify the type of computer/word processor used and the type of software packages used. File transfer protocol (FTP) can be used to send large files to the Blackwell Science FTP site (ftp://obp-ftp.oxon.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/dme/). We also need to know if you have used a keyboard character to represent a character that is not on your keyboard (e.g. Greek). Include all parts of the manuscript in a single file. (See the Illustrations section for additional information.)
Where disks are sent they must be accompanied by a hard copy printout. All disk and electronically submitted versions should be identical to any printed copies.
Layout
Original articles should conform to the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals - the Vancouver style (Br Med J 1998; 296: 401-405) - as adopted by Diabetic Medicine. The layout should be divided conventionally into subsections, each starting on a new page.
Title page should include the title; authors (initials and surnames but without qualifications); authors' affiliations; name and full address of the author who will check proofs and deal with correspondence (with telephone, fax numbers and e-mail); a running title not exceeding 75 characters including spaces.
Second page A structured summary (no more than 250 words) should describe the content of the paper accurately and the important conclusions, couched in terms which will be understood by the majority of readers of the Journal. The main headings should be aims, methods, results, conclusions. A list of key words (no more than 5) should be given for reference purposes together with a list of abbreviations used.
Third page should begin with the Introduction followed by a full description of the methods (generally entitled Patients and Methods) then the Results and a Discussion. The correct hierarchy of headings and subheadings should be indicated.
Footnotes should not be used except in tables.
References are only acceptable if already published or if formal acceptance has been given for publication when the journal title is followed by ('in press'); they are indicated in the text by bracketed numbers and listed in order of quotation in the text, and given in the Vancouver style, for example:
1. Klein R. The epidemiology of diabetic eye disease. In Pickup J, G Williams eds. Textbook of Diabetes. 2nd edn. Blackwell Science, Oxford 1997: 44:1-9
2. Sculpher MJ, Buxton MJ, Ferguson BA, Humphreys JE, Altman JFB, Spiegelhalter DJ et al. A relative cost-effectiveness analysis of different methods of screening for diabetic retinopathy. Diabet Med 1991; 8: 644-650.
3. Jarrett RJ. Insulin and hypertension (Letter). Lancet 1987; ii: 748-749.
Figures and Illustrations
Illustrations should be separate from the text, and numbered with Arabic numerals. Either screen or high quality electronic images can be included in online submissions, higher quality files can be supplied at acceptance. Where hardcopies are provided line drawings, radiographs and photographs (clear, sharp, well-contrasted) should be good quality, glossy photographic prints, trimmed at right angles and in their final printed size (up to 80 mm for column width, or to a maximum 166 mm for page width). Prints from existing half-tone illustrations cannot be accepted. Computer generated illustrations must be submitted as laser printer output at a resolution of 300 dots per inch (or greater) on high quality paper, or as output from a phototypesetting machine. Dot-matrix printer output is unacceptable. Line and bar graphs should not be three-dimensional.
All illustrations must be numbered and the top indicated on the back. Insets, lettering, arrows, etc. should be applied electronically or using template rub-on letters or carefully inserted by an experienced hand. It is often necessary to print photographs in a slightly different size from the originals, and authors are therefore recommended to use scale bars to indicate magnification. The author must guarantee that the reproduction of illustrations in which a patient is recognizable is approved either by the patient him/herself of his/her legal representative.
Please send us digital versions of your figures. Ideally these should be sent as encapsulate PostScript (EPS) or TIFF, but other formats may be usable. Always enclose a hard copy of digitally supplied figures. Further details can be found at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/prep_illust.asp
Original drawings of photographs should be supplied for reproduction. Figures will be reduced to single column width (80 mm), two-thirds page width (110 mm) or full page width (1696 mm) and should be planned accordingly.
Colour illustrations. It is the policy of Diabetic Medicine for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. If colour figures are requested, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colourwork agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF from: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_CoW.pdf . If you are unable to download the form, please contact the editorial office.
Figure legends must be comprehensive in isolation from the text: they should include keys to symbols and indicate the statistical significance of differences.
Tables
These should be created where possible using the table creation facility of your word processing software or typed double spaced on a separate sheet and identified by Arabic numerals corresponding to the order in which they appear in the manuscript. A brief title should head the table. Explanatory matters should be in a footnote.
Previous Publication
Papers are accepted on the understanding that no substantial part has been, or will be, published elsewhere. Data that have been published as an abstract of no more than 300 words in a scientific meeting are acceptable. The abstract reference should be quoted under the summary. Papers may be subject to editorial revision without notice and remain the copyright of Diabetes UK. If a paper returned to authors for revision is not received back in the editorial office by a deadline which will be imposed by the Editor, it will be treated as a new submission. The Editors reserve the right to make the final decision whether or not a paper is accepted.
Statement of Consent
Authors must indicate in the text the way in which they have complied with the recommendations of the Declaration of Helsinki (British Medical Journal, 1964, ii, 177). Experimental human studies should first have been approved by a local Ethical Committee, and a statement to this effect should be included. If a patient may be identified from material accepted for publication in Diabetic Medicine (including case reports and illustrations), we require the written consent of the patient to allow publication. Black bands across the eyes are not effective in masking the identity of the patient, and changing details of the patient in an attempt to disguise them is bad scientific practice. A suggested consent form is available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/dme_consent.pdf or from the Editorial office.
Acknowledgement of Support
All support, financial or otherwise, for any work described should be acknowledged, with the exception of support from employing institutions identifiable from the title page. Any potential conflict of interest from any author must be outlined in a covering letter.
Correspondence
The author named for correspondence will receive page-proofs for correction approximately 4-6 weeks after acceptance. Only corrections of factual or printers' errors are possible at the proof stage.
No manuscript or figures will be returned following publication unless a request for return is made when the manuscript is originally submitted.
Offprints
Twenty-five offprints of published articles other than letters, corrections and media reviews, will be provided free of charge. Additional copies may be purchased on the offprint order form which will accompany the proofs. Offprints will be sent to the author named for correspondence unless otherwise stated.
There are no page charges other than the colour reproduction charges indicated above.
Style Guide
Diabetic Medicine does not recognise the term 'diabetic' as a noun. 'People with diabetes' or 'diabetic patients' are acceptable. The terms 'Type 1' and 'Type 2 diabetes mellitus' (abbreviated to Type 1 and Type 2 DM) are preferable to IDDM and NIDDM.
Abbreviations and Units
SI units must be used throughout except for blood pressure (mmHg) and haemoglobin (g/l). Gas or pressure values should be given as mmHg with kPa in parentheses or vice versa. Where molecular weight is known, the amount of a substance should be expressed in mol or appropriate subunit (mmol). Energy should be expressed in kcal or joules (J). T
he solidus may be used in a unit as long as it does not have to be employed more than once (e.g. mmol/l is acceptable), but ml/min/kg is not acceptable and should be replaced with ml.min-1. kg-1.
Visual Impairment
If you have difficulty reading Diabetic Medicine owing to the size of the text, it is possible to download the journal in a larger format from the internet. The electronic version of Diabetic Medicine is available through Synergy. Please see http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/dme
Editorial Board
Editor
Simon Heller, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Editorial Office
Diabetic Medicine
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
9600 Garsington Road
Oxford
OX4 2DQ
Tel: + 44 1865 476 321
Fax: + 44 1865 476 771
e-mail: Lucy.garnier@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
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